They Come and They Go

He just didn't want to go along to get along anymore.
-Richard Price
"Lush Life"
Twenty five years ago today:
October 6, 1985
Sunday

I called Dale at 9AM and told him I was not baptizing Andrew.
Dale replied, “Okay, is there anything else?”
“Yes, but I am not getting into it.”
I left it at that.

I enjoyed breakfast at mom’s house and then fell asleep on her sofa watching the 49er vs. Falcons game. The best part was waking up towards the end and seeing that I won fifty bucks on the office pool for that game. How exciting! I won.

Mom and I went over to Longs Drugstore for a few things. Neither of us had an ID (which was required) to rent a movie there. How ridiculous. I dropped mom home and went to my pad to wash clothes.

I started my aerobics tape when Lorraine Garcia telephoned me. We had a fairly nice talk. She’s so sweet. She is living in Santa Rosa (in Rohnert Park) now.
“Why don’t you come over next weekend?”
“That might be possible,” I said.
I suppose it’s a possibility. Lorraine went on to say how Jim (a sales guy at the 24-Hour Fitness Center) got fired.
“I can’t believe it.”
“Yeah and there was a rumor going around that Jim and I were fooling around. That’s why I quit.”
“Oh brother.”
“And get this, someone at the gym told my ex-boyfriend, Joe, all about you. The person said that we had made it together.”
We both laughed.
I went on to share some of my experiences in Paris, France, explaining what fun I had. I explained how Greg Manachevitz is not moving in. I, also, mentioned Leonard Perillo briefly. I didn’t really get into Leonard as a major topic (yet, anyway).

I ordered a pizza and when it arrived I received a phone call from ‘fat’ Caroline.
Caroline said, “I just wanted you to know that on October twelfth there is a party in Orinda.”
“Oh really, I might be able to go,” I said, lying through my teeth.
I won’t go.

PHOTO: Cybil Shepherd

I watched “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” on TV, and then I watched ‘Amazing Stories’, ‘Alfred Hitchcock’ and started on ‘The Long Hot Summer’ (starring Cybil Shepherd). The movie depressed me. It got me thinking of Karen Melton. I was wondering what in-the-hell happened with her. (?) They come and they go.

She had that deliciously self-conscious way of walking. She moved as if every man in the world was watching her. She walked as if she were irresistable. And such was the power of her conviction.
-Philippa Gregory
"The Other Boleyn Girl"